Stuart Skinner is all chill, man.

He’s long said he isn’t a social media guy — smart with Twitter or X often being a sewer — so he doesn’t know what some people are saying about this guy who grew up in Sherwood Park and his play.

The vocal rabble who wonder why the Edmonton Oilers didn’t make a goalie change this summer or at last season’s trade deadline, can’t get a better goalie, even though Skinner’s won a lot — 91 regular season wins and 26 more in the playoffs the last three seasons.

Fact is, Skinner is a good, but not great goalie at the NHL level.

Still only 26, albeit with clear bobbles in the playoffs the last two years, saved by his backup Calvin Pickard when stumbling. Oilers fans may want somebody better, but to play the apologist, he lost the last two Stanley Cup Finals

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